RICHARD BENNETT LO439

Official No:  144668    Port and Year: London, 1919 (LO458)

Description: Strath Class steel side trawler; steam screw, coal burning.

Crew:

Built: 1917, by Hall, Russell & Co.,Aberdeen.  (Yard no. 609)

Tonnage: 227 grt 92 net.

Length / breadth / depth (feet):  122.8 / 22.2 / 11.2

Engine: T 3-Cyl. 57 rhp. . Engine by builders.

Owners:   1921: Ivey Steam Trawling Co., Docks, Milford   c.1925: Aberdeen owners?   As CT741 c.1926: Irvin & Johnson (South Africa), Capetown.   [Fate unknown, but possibly sunk as target practice.  Still on 1945 Lloyd's Register with same owners.]

Landed at Milford: 11 Jan 1922 - 15 Apr 1925

Skippers:

Notes: 1917: Completed for the Admiralty (Admy.no. 3679). 1921: Sold to mercantile. Sep 1939: Requisitioned by the South Africa Navy and converted to a minesweeper. May 1940: Returned to owners.

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